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Popular Emmy-winning actor Powers Boothe, best known for his work in Kurt Russell’s Tombstone<\/em>, Van Damme’s Sudden Death<\/em>, and television’s Deadwood<\/em>, has passed away.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Powers Boothe cut his acting teeth on the stage, but it was for his leading turn in 1980’s television movie Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones<\/em>, which landed him national attention in the United States. A native Texan, Boothe would snag the Emmy for Best Actor for his turn as Jim Jones, before going on to portray hardboiled crime character Phillip Marlowe in Philip Marlowe: Private Eye<\/em>, in 1983. A film career beckoned: Boothe would appear in the original Red Dawn<\/em>, in John Boorman’s The Emerald Forest<\/em>, Walter Hill’s Extreme Prejudice<\/em> (1987), and alongside Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Michael Beihn and Sam Elliot in Tombstone<\/em> (1993), as Curly Bill.<\/p>\n He played the chief villain in the Jean Claude Van Damme action thriller Sudden Death<\/em> (Directed by Peter Hyams), Alexander Haig in Nixon<\/em> (1995), Sheriff Potter in U Turn<\/em> (1997), and appeared in Bill Paxton’s directorial debut, Frailty<\/em>. Boothe played crooked Senator Roark in Robert Rodriguez’ Sin City<\/em>, reprising the role in the sequel, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For<\/em><\/a>, and appeared in a minor role in 2012’s Marvel blockbuster, The Avengers<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n His notable television roles include Deadwood, 24<\/em> and Nashville<\/em>. Most recently he appeared in several episodes of Marvel’s Agents Of SHIELD<\/em>.<\/p>\n Powers Boothe passed away on May 14th, aged 68.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Popular Emmy-winning actor Powers Boothe, best known for his work in Kurt Russell’s Tombstone, Van…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":46162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sin-city-a-dame-to-kill-for-screenshot-powers-boothe-2.jpg",1024,576,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sin-city-a-dame-to-kill-for-screenshot-powers-boothe-2-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sin-city-a-dame-to-kill-for-screenshot-powers-boothe-2-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sin-city-a-dame-to-kill-for-screenshot-powers-boothe-2-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sin-city-a-dame-to-kill-for-screenshot-powers-boothe-2-720x405.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sin-city-a-dame-to-kill-for-screenshot-powers-boothe-2.jpg",1024,576,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sin-city-a-dame-to-kill-for-screenshot-powers-boothe-2.jpg",1024,576,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sin-city-a-dame-to-kill-for-screenshot-powers-boothe-2.jpg",1024,576,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sin-city-a-dame-to-kill-for-screenshot-powers-boothe-2.jpg",540,304,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sin-city-a-dame-to-kill-for-screenshot-powers-boothe-2.jpg",24,14,false],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sin-city-a-dame-to-kill-for-screenshot-powers-boothe-2.jpg",48,27,false],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sin-city-a-dame-to-kill-for-screenshot-powers-boothe-2.jpg",96,54,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sin-city-a-dame-to-kill-for-screenshot-powers-boothe-2.jpg",150,84,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sin-city-a-dame-to-kill-for-screenshot-powers-boothe-2.jpg",300,169,false],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sin-city-a-dame-to-kill-for-screenshot-powers-boothe-2-272x182.jpg",272,182,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/3f519c0a83c78775bcb2e4464a1c720e.jpg\")